Jamie Michaels
Affiliations
Doctoral Candidate
Sessional Instructor
Contact information
Background
Biography
I am a critically acclaimed writer, filmmaker, and educator from Winnipeg. I utilize familiar mediums such as comics, animations, and film to tell meaningful stories about multiculturalism and human rights in new and surprising ways. My creative work has been recognized by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, and the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba. My work has received the Norma Epstein Foundation Award in Creative Writing (National), the Harold Greenberg Fund Shorts-to-Features Award, and the Joe Shuster Award.
I am a Killam Laureate (2021-2023), Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar (2022-2025), Fellow of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities (2024-2025), Collaborator at the Observatory on Human Rights at the UN (2025-2026), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2026-2028). My contributions to human rights have been recognized by Historica Canada, the President for the Academy of the Arts and the Humanities for the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
I am a contributor to the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, the Symposium on Canadian Comics, the International Comics Arts Forum, the International Politcal Science Association, and the Earth System Governance Project. My research on the comics form has been published in Canadian Literature, Sequentials, Project GraphicBio, the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies, and the Comics Grid.
Awards
- Killam Laureate, 2021
- SSSHRC CGS Doctoral Fellow, 2021
- Eyes High Doctoral Scholar, 2020
- Byers Memorial Killam Prize for Best Statement of Research, 2021
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, 2022
- Faculty of Arts Creativity Award in Justice, Equity and Transformation, University of Calgary. 2025
Publications
- Unsettling the Canadian Whites: A Writing Back of Indigenous, Black, and Jewish Comics. Jamie Michaels. Canadian Literature . 30-49. (2023)
- Graphic Content. Jamie Michaels & Candida Rifkind. Sequentials. (2021)
- “Graphic Backgrounds: Collective Dissociative Trauma in Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds.” . Jamie Michaels. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. (2020)
- Christie Pits. Jamie Michaels & Doug Fedrau. Dirty Water Comics. (2019)
- Canoe Boys. Jamie Michaels & Evin Collis. Dirty Water Comics. (2016)
- Assets and Ashes: Wildfire management and the politics of climate change. Jean-Frédéric Morin. Earth System Governance. (2025)
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